1 00:00:44,12 --> 00:00:50,33 This is the American dream of freedom on wheels an automotive age 2 00:00:50,33 --> 00:00:54,35 traveling on time saving super highways. 3 00:00:54,36 --> 00:00:58,68 Futurama has free flowing channels of concrete and steel 4 00:01:00,84 --> 00:01:07,72 but these wide lanes of reality actually measure out to just a few miles scattered 5 00:01:07,72 --> 00:01:11,84 far apart across the friendly face of our land. 6 00:01:12,98 --> 00:01:18,90 We have become the nation on wheels with more motorized mobility 7 00:01:19,73 --> 00:01:21,15 that never dreamed of before. 8 00:01:23,80 --> 00:01:28,92 So we have the greatest highway system in all the world yet can't carry the 9 00:01:28,92 --> 00:01:31,84 mounting traffic of our growing greatness. 10 00:01:46,51 --> 00:01:52,38 We're running out of room. We didn't dream big enough. 11 00:01:54,40 --> 00:01:59,79 Here's the problem all mapped out three million three hundred thousand miles of. 12 00:02:01,29 --> 00:02:06,39 Unimproved improve to pave 13 00:02:08,22 --> 00:02:15,15 super highway country roads small city 14 00:02:15,15 --> 00:02:19,30 streets big city four of the 15 00:02:21,85 --> 00:02:24,59 state highways networking the nation. 16 00:02:30,41 --> 00:02:31,55 And here's the crisis. 17 00:02:32,66 --> 00:02:39,61 Two thirds of the way is now obsolete worn out integrated with barrier 18 00:02:39,61 --> 00:02:42,81 in conversion capacity and safety. 19 00:03:04,86 --> 00:03:08,23 Sure. These were good roads thirty years ago when they were laid out 20 00:03:09,91 --> 00:03:11,10 but nothing lasts forever. 21 00:03:16,07 --> 00:03:19,86 The waiting line forms on the right and 22 00:03:19,87 --> 00:03:24,11 that the head of the waiting line is your local highway engineer. 23 00:03:25,62 --> 00:03:32,26 Listen to what he thinks about our roads all over the county our farm to market 24 00:03:32,26 --> 00:03:37,48 roads are dying of old age not anybody's fault just a matter of time 25 00:03:38,32 --> 00:03:39,90 and not enough money to keep them up 26 00:03:39,90 --> 00:03:43,90 or make the modern most were built in the twenty's 27 00:03:45,02 --> 00:03:49,61 and on came the neglect of the war you beat them up and broke them down 28 00:03:50,54 --> 00:03:52,33 and we've been using them more and more ever since. 29 00:03:53,79 --> 00:03:56,49 What we need is to invest more money in good new roads. 30 00:03:56,72 --> 00:03:59,69 Instead of spending so much patching up war not months. 31 00:04:03,97 --> 00:04:08,29 What do the people think who must use these roads ask the farmer. 32 00:04:09,68 --> 00:04:13,03 I think all the washboard rotted to ruination 33 00:04:14,35 --> 00:04:17,69 and come every spring the bottoms drop out. 34 00:04:17,71 --> 00:04:22,89 And the milk truck driver we pay for roads by the way have them 35 00:04:22,89 --> 00:04:25,41 or not only we pay more for them 36 00:04:25,41 --> 00:04:30,84 when we don't have them don't have to have high top gravel is fine 37 00:04:30,84 --> 00:04:32,75 when it's created to keep down the dust 38 00:04:33,60 --> 00:04:37,60 and all the gravel in the county can keep a road from Gavan in if a statue is not 39 00:04:37,60 --> 00:04:42,51 uncommon graded proper for all weather where side mill where 40 00:04:42,51 --> 00:04:48,34 and tear on equipment ways to time sucks everybody from the farmers right up to the 41 00:04:48,34 --> 00:04:55,03 family budget were gone more crops run more people run more cars 42 00:04:55,03 --> 00:05:00,52 and trucks trouble as we've just not been grown enough more good road 43 00:05:08,38 --> 00:05:16,00 and your accident rate rises too if you don't watch out. 44 00:05:16,94 --> 00:05:19,39 Ask the school bus driver. 45 00:05:20,11 --> 00:05:24,34 Yeah you have to be careful driving the kids over these roads. 46 00:05:25,26 --> 00:05:31,41 Sharp curves soft Shorter's narrow bridges railroad crossings 47 00:05:36,98 --> 00:05:39,26 spring rains wash out the roads 48 00:05:39,26 --> 00:05:44,11 and whatever frosts rip them up so you can God knows school hours days. 49 00:05:45,56 --> 00:05:52,06 Other times you don't know what to expect. Ask the small town merchant. 50 00:05:54,05 --> 00:05:59,14 Our town has a population of four thousand and two except on weekends. 51 00:06:00,84 --> 00:06:03,33 On Friday night on Saturday can. 52 00:06:03,50 --> 00:06:09,61 Justin heads are main arteries like a high attacked by customers passers by. 53 00:06:09,79 --> 00:06:16,73 If they can find a place to stop what brings up store sales today is parking 54 00:06:16,73 --> 00:06:22,48 space. It's as important to buy a home as shelf space and display windows. 55 00:06:24,32 --> 00:06:28,76 Best investment the town can make lots of parking 56 00:06:31,32 --> 00:06:33,28 in small town and suburb. 57 00:06:33,72 --> 00:06:39,97 In cities of all sizes the situation is the same all snarled up 58 00:06:42,59 --> 00:06:48,02 the best investment has yet to be made as this is America 59 00:06:50,35 --> 00:06:52,54 every day it gets worse shopping. 60 00:06:52,69 --> 00:06:56,55 It's not just a matter of getting through the congestion. 61 00:06:56,57 --> 00:06:59,64 It's impossible to find a place to park 62 00:07:11,72 --> 00:07:15,40 or are. 63 00:08:30,28 --> 00:08:36,74 What can I do with morning and night. 64 00:08:36,75 --> 00:08:38,74 Around the clock. 65 00:08:39,57 --> 00:08:46,32 The sound of our times keeps blasting way out of 66 00:08:46,32 --> 00:08:52,48 the bottleneck three quarters of everything for American families travels at some 67 00:08:52,48 --> 00:08:54,98 time on the backs of our ten million trucks 68 00:08:56,38 --> 00:09:01,25 and what are you planning for their mother. Here it is expensive. 69 00:09:01,50 --> 00:09:08,24 Les bottlenecked my pal like 70 00:09:08,24 --> 00:09:12,50 that though that's the route buddy. 71 00:09:12,77 --> 00:09:19,54 That's what the dope like I'm fine with fifty four million There goes on our 72 00:09:19,54 --> 00:09:19,84 streets 73 00:09:19,84 --> 00:09:26,17 and roads today fifty percent more than before the war by nineteen seventy five. 74 00:09:26,40 --> 00:09:33,12 They say we will be driving eighty five million five o'clock 75 00:09:34,15 --> 00:09:40,89 USA for the life of the 76 00:09:40,89 --> 00:09:45,58 traveling sales lady for every a point. 77 00:09:46,42 --> 00:09:55,49 This is an outside group. 78 00:09:57,79 --> 00:10:00,50 Well yes our going my way and going. Nowhere. 79 00:10:03,63 --> 00:10:07,31 This is morning rush 80 00:10:07,31 --> 00:10:10,88 and evening wait fight your way home from work. 81 00:10:12,71 --> 00:10:17,75 Think you got it made good job. Carnally paid for. 82 00:10:18,77 --> 00:10:22,66 So you get a little home in the suburbs away from the city smoke. 83 00:10:23,04 --> 00:10:26,79 Out from the shadows of the factory into the sun 84 00:10:26,79 --> 00:10:32,81 and clean air raise a few kids some flowers and vegetables. 85 00:10:32,83 --> 00:10:39,27 The big dream coming to but it backfired and a pipe dream. 86 00:10:41,23 --> 00:10:44,31 Exhaust pipe dream. Every night. 87 00:10:44,32 --> 00:10:49,65 It takes longer to get home wasting more time and get. No wonder. 88 00:10:49,74 --> 00:10:55,77 Everybody's acting so what's a citizen gonna do. 89 00:10:55,79 --> 00:10:57,23 What can a citizen do. 90 00:11:01,42 --> 00:11:08,13 To help find out a better highway is contest was recently conducted purpose around 91 00:11:08,14 --> 00:11:11,84 nationwide begging on how to plan and pay for the safe 92 00:11:11,84 --> 00:11:18,48 and adequate highways we need highway experts wrote essays along with tens of 93 00:11:18,48 --> 00:11:23,67 thousands of others already recognize the highway dilemma as one of our nation's 94 00:11:23,67 --> 00:11:24,96 most critical problem. 95 00:11:33,48 --> 00:11:37,10 I am privileged to present the winner of the Grand National Award. 96 00:11:37,27 --> 00:11:38,54 Robert Moses of New York. 97 00:11:46,19 --> 00:11:51,08 Robert Moses New York City construction coordinator is a world famous highway 98 00:11:51,08 --> 00:11:59,62 planner a man who knows his business. 99 00:12:00,83 --> 00:12:05,91 Genius. Device. 100 00:12:07,29 --> 00:12:11,64 Well ensure it with cars. 101 00:12:13,08 --> 00:12:17,92 We have fallen far behind. 102 00:12:17,93 --> 00:12:21,84 Are neither easy nor cheap. 103 00:12:24,18 --> 00:12:24,82 Realizable 104 00:12:26,14 --> 00:12:33,18 but the task set is not beyond the capacity to 105 00:12:33,19 --> 00:12:40,17 Merican people and you may be sure that they will not stop short of the goal. 106 00:12:42,97 --> 00:12:48,66 Went on to propose a ten year construction program to cost five billion dollars a 107 00:12:48,66 --> 00:12:51,52 year he stressed. 108 00:12:51,63 --> 00:12:58,53 There was no new solution for the tire nation rather a combination 109 00:12:58,53 --> 00:12:59,91 of many solutions 110 00:13:02,43 --> 00:13:07,51 and there is a solution for each community to accomplish 111 00:13:35,31 --> 00:13:42,13 a good parking spaces any space a good road is any road 112 00:13:42,13 --> 00:13:46,48 able to carry its daily traffic flow safely and adequately 113 00:13:47,57 --> 00:13:52,81 and it doesn't have to cost a million dollars a mile to be a good in every stretch 114 00:13:52,81 --> 00:13:59,39 of fireman factory to market road for all the nation and it's just good. 115 00:14:00,00 --> 00:14:06,24 Going to enterprise to put part of the profits back in the business. 116 00:14:06,26 --> 00:14:12,58 Our road builders now have the know how to perform miracles of concrete through the 117 00:14:12,58 --> 00:14:19,18 air if supported by the proper financing they can lift 118 00:14:19,18 --> 00:14:25,39 traffic over sitting congestion with elevated highways raised by an aroused 119 00:14:25,39 --> 00:14:31,92 public expressway speeds over a densely populated area of Brooklyn 120 00:14:31,92 --> 00:14:37,90 without disturbing rise below to deliberate through traffic to the underwater 121 00:14:37,90 --> 00:14:44,34 tunnel to Manhattan connecting from the north of Bora story Street will soon be 122 00:14:44,34 --> 00:14:49,57 open with promenade for pedestrians on top local traffic on the bottom 123 00:14:49,57 --> 00:14:52,45 and two runway expressways in between. 124 00:14:54,13 --> 00:14:56,47 Here is a four story proof 125 00:14:57,25 --> 00:15:00,37 that our modern highway planners with imagination 126 00:15:01,22 --> 00:15:08,07 and public support can solve our traffic problems we can have 127 00:15:08,07 --> 00:15:14,89 our super highways in the sky fabulous futuristic farms like this Hollywood 128 00:15:14,89 --> 00:15:20,63 freeway interchange which sorts flowing traffic a ways 129 00:15:20,63 --> 00:15:26,90 that once if we start now to give our engineers the go sign 130 00:15:27,96 --> 00:15:29,28 to design dreams. 131 00:15:29,65 --> 00:15:36,64 Instead of detours Let's back together to 132 00:15:36,64 --> 00:15:41,95 that viaduct snaking along the docks of Puget Sound through Seattle's busiest 133 00:15:41,95 --> 00:15:47,30 section has cut a twenty minute traffic battle to three minutes travel time 134 00:15:48,92 --> 00:15:54,62 and more miles are on the way the people of the state of Washington are using all 135 00:15:54,62 --> 00:15:59,95 of an increased gasoline tax and our license fund for the faster development. 136 00:16:00,00 --> 00:16:01,56 Better roads program. 137 00:16:04,57 --> 00:16:10,22 Many people favor toll roads like the New Jersey Turnpike financed by a bond issue. 138 00:16:10,31 --> 00:16:11,88 Another way to raise funds. 139 00:16:12,37 --> 00:16:17,70 It's already paying itself way ahead of schedule proving 140 00:16:17,71 --> 00:16:21,30 that many of us who drive will pay extra by the mile 141 00:16:21,30 --> 00:16:25,31 and a every trip to travel a good road. 142 00:16:27,72 --> 00:16:32,63 Many states already have toll roads and more are now under construction 143 00:16:33,44 --> 00:16:36,92 or in the planning stage. 144 00:16:38,59 --> 00:16:44,75 Any roadway must keep pace with the changing character of its community green pig 145 00:16:45,75 --> 00:16:52,60 and act boldly No the best road of yesterday can become the worst road of the day 146 00:16:52,60 --> 00:16:58,90 just a few miles down the way Pittsburgh is moving mountains 147 00:16:59,94 --> 00:17:06,51 and even relocating a railroad yard to get out of its traffic jam County 148 00:17:06,51 --> 00:17:07,15 thirty 149 00:17:07,15 --> 00:17:11,46 and state tax money is matching federal funds to pave the way 150 00:17:13,61 --> 00:17:18,93 when this boldly planned Parkway is completely open to traffic the greater 151 00:17:18,93 --> 00:17:23,92 Pittsburgh airport instead of being an hour away will be only a fifteen minute ride 152 00:17:23,92 --> 00:17:30,36 from the center of the city as has been done in other cities. 153 00:17:30,66 --> 00:17:35,72 That's Bergen thinking of four million dollars hole in the heart of the city to 154 00:17:35,72 --> 00:17:42,61 provide underground storage for thousands of cars above the surface in a full 155 00:17:42,61 --> 00:17:45,69 park well camouflaged the busy activity below 156 00:17:47,99 --> 00:17:54,82 or if not underground then stacked layer upon layer in modern fireproof got through 157 00:17:54,82 --> 00:17:59,82 engineered for easy access and maximum use of downtown's. 158 00:18:05,21 --> 00:18:10,87 In the San Francisco Bay Shore freeway is getting in shape for tomorrow's traffic 159 00:18:10,87 --> 00:18:16,33 as part of California's new ten year seven hundred fifty million dollars highway 160 00:18:16,33 --> 00:18:21,44 program financed by state tax on gasoline and license fees. 161 00:18:24,90 --> 00:18:30,92 Chicago is moving a city to build an eight mile long expressway from the city 162 00:18:30,92 --> 00:18:36,19 limits to Michigan Avenue wide as a city block into the heart of the loop 163 00:18:37,00 --> 00:18:41,70 and a lane miracle which will send traffic through the middle of the main post 164 00:18:41,70 --> 00:18:48,68 office building like a special delivery letter Chicago 165 00:18:48,69 --> 00:18:53,02 and is rated their share of the ninety two million dollar car buyer bond issue 166 00:18:53,85 --> 00:18:54,27 interest 167 00:18:54,28 --> 00:18:59,27 and retirement to be paid for by future revenue from motor fuel taxes backed up by 168 00:18:59,27 --> 00:19:06,16 property tax borrowing money to finance the expansion is traditional with Americans 169 00:19:07,07 --> 00:19:07,69 the time 170 00:19:07,69 --> 00:19:13,71 and money saved more than repays your investment if you wait to pay as you go. 171 00:19:14,76 --> 00:19:15,66 You may not go well. 172 00:19:20,49 --> 00:19:24,38 Detroit is borrowing funds to build more miles of expressway 173 00:19:25,36 --> 00:19:28,93 and build them today instead of years from now 174 00:19:55,89 --> 00:19:59,94 limited access highways without stoplights from. 175 00:20:00,00 --> 00:20:03,73 Just traffic but that's Korean left turn menace 176 00:20:04,44 --> 00:20:10,72 and dangerous intersection spacious roads of the binded lanes where free flowing 177 00:20:10,72 --> 00:20:11,35 traffic 178 00:20:11,35 --> 00:20:16,48 and save time tires gas as well as lives 179 00:20:18,92 --> 00:20:25,61 but the way of the green light isn't only on an expressway the green light must 180 00:20:25,61 --> 00:20:31,83 shine along improved neighborhoods street on a sunday way to church 181 00:20:33,67 --> 00:20:36,52 and the pleasure drive to Waters a sun 182 00:20:39,05 --> 00:20:41,94 and go ahead must be fought for on the side streets. 183 00:20:44,71 --> 00:20:51,43 We must fight for it every crossroads widening out congested intersection 184 00:20:53,30 --> 00:20:57,03 rounding square corners for the wheels of the automotive age. 185 00:20:59,66 --> 00:21:02,15 We must boldly attack bottlenecks 186 00:21:02,84 --> 00:21:06,57 and traffic jams with left turn lane 187 00:21:07,37 --> 00:21:11,53 and modern interchanges service roads 188 00:21:14,57 --> 00:21:20,23 and better loading facilities free ourselves from the old server 189 00:21:22,65 --> 00:21:28,39 and from no place to park roads are dying of old age. 190 00:21:29,80 --> 00:21:33,67 And come every spring the bottoms drop. 191 00:21:33,68 --> 00:21:40,33 Yap yap to be careful driving the kids over the edge. Once a citizen gonna go. 192 00:21:45,39 --> 00:21:50,23 Our American Dream of Futurama on wheels can come true. 193 00:21:51,91 --> 00:21:58,91 Our highway engineers know the way it's ours for the asking if we 194 00:21:58,91 --> 00:21:59,34 last 195 00:22:00,42 --> 00:22:06,63 and pay our way freedom of the road is a hold of the first man 196 00:22:07,69 --> 00:22:09,30 and his new at this moment. 197 00:22:11,33 --> 00:22:16,69 Once we fight for it through forests and River Wild animal.